Dave's Photoshop class: Dolly* tool

For this Wednesdays class the main focus was on the cloning tool with a few exercises covering its application across a number of images. For the first few exercises it consists mostly of fixing up images removing the scratches or in the case of the lake photo removing a garish red dash from the centre of the portrait. The others were outright modifications changing door signs while completely removing elements of other images.

This is the photo of the computer case with before and after showing the removal of the scratches which wasn't as straight forward as it seemed with a number of scratches covering different shadowy areas that could easily escape attention unless your paying very close attention to the image.

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The next photo had a lot of work going into the finer details as the red gash ran right across a lot of high detail objects so it required going into the image at a high zoom and touching out all of the red while ensuring that hard lines of the various objects continued naturally without any jarring edges or weird colour variations.

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The next image was of a door where an unfortunate sign was accosted with the worst font in history and is recovering in intensive care after a mace was used to remove the offending text.

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I have it on good authority that the door will make a full recovery although whether this is the last we've seen of the offending text remains to be seen as investigators on the scene only found traces of the bad. More exciting updates as the story progresses.

(*It's like Dolly, get it?....You know... Dolly the sheep, with the cloning and... actually you know what? Forget it! Your no fun anyways. )